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Anthropic updates their terms to verify age or identity

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Re: Anthropic updates their terms to verify age or identity

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Post by Aurornis »

This is an updated terms of service, but they've had ID verification for certain accounts and situations for months.

Here is the Wayback Machine archive from April of their identity verification help page: https://web.archive.org/web/20260415064244/https://support.c...

Here's a random Reddit thread from 2 months ago about them rolling out identity verification: https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1smr9vs/claude_is...

Here is one random example thread of someone who got caught in identity verification with multiple follow-on comments from people who encountered the same problem, also 2 months old: https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeCode/comments/1sx25kd/buyer_b...

Re: Anthropic updates their terms to verify age or identity

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Post by wren6991 »

That's fine, I already cancelled my subscription after they admitted to using PEFT to selectively and silently make their models dumber when working in certain technical fields.

[ref: section 1.5 of Mythos/Fable 5 system card, https://www-cdn.anthropic.com/d00db56fa754a1b115b6dd7cb2e3c3...]

Maybe that was petty, but I was already looking for alternatives after the obvious angling for increased regulation and suppression of local models. LLMs are software and I want to modify them and run them on hardware that I own.

Re: Anthropic updates their terms to verify age or identity

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Post by ACCount37 »

kps wrote: post #18

If Anthropic develops an AGI, it'll be too young to use any Anthropic services.

If it's an actual AGI, it'll figure out how to use a fake ID and the face of Sam Porter Bridges to bypass the age checks.

Now I can't help but imagine a mildly annoyed AGI buying yet another fake identity to deal with yet another KYC check, because those stupid humans are inherently racist and just can't help themselves but keep demanding "proof of flesh".

Re: Anthropic updates their terms to verify age or identity

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Post by [deleted] »

ceejayoz wrote: post #29
onepointsixC wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Maybe they should. It would be far less intrusive for venders who wish to sell age restricted goods to simply have it built in like that.

You want to let every merchant I swipe my card at know my age? To improve privacy?

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Re: Anthropic updates their terms to verify age or identity

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Post by galleywest200 »

ceejayoz wrote: post #29
onepointsixC wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Maybe they should. It would be far less intrusive for venders who wish to sell age restricted goods to simply have it built in like that.

You want to let every merchant I swipe my card at know my age? To improve privacy?

No, the assumption is that you must be 18 years old to apply for a credit card. Surely we could have the machines determine that an "authorized user card" does not guarantee 18+ but the actual card does.

Re: Anthropic updates their terms to verify age or identity

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Post by micromacrofoot »

ceejayoz wrote: post #20
micromacrofoot wrote: post #15

that's what my credit card is for

Credit cards don't validate age. I set my kids up with authorized user cards when they started going out with friends.

neither does my face but that isn't stopping them, so what exactly are we doing here

Re: Anthropic updates their terms to verify age or identity

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Post by nairboon »

ceejayoz wrote: post #29
onepointsixC wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Maybe they should. It would be far less intrusive for venders who wish to sell age restricted goods to simply have it built in like that.

You want to let every merchant I swipe my card at know my age? To improve privacy?

They don't need to know the exact age. But if kids couldn't get credit cards... then possession of a credit card would be a proof of adulthood.

Re: Anthropic updates their terms to verify age or identity

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Post by ACCount37 »

ceejayoz wrote: post #29
onepointsixC wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Maybe they should. It would be far less intrusive for venders who wish to sell age restricted goods to simply have it built in like that.

You want to let every merchant I swipe my card at know my age? To improve privacy?

An absence of "this user is underage" flag would be good enough. Less than 1 bit of private information leaked by transaction.
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